Narikurava family thrown out of bus, staff suspended

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Narikurava family thrown out of bus, staff suspended

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Kanyakumari:12.10.2021

Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) has placed under suspension the driver and conductor of a government bus on charges of forcing a narikurava family to get down from it at Nagercoil on Thursday evening. This was after a video of a visually-impaired old man, a woman and a child being ejected out of the bus and their luggage bundles thrown out by the conductor was circulated on social media. The child was seen inconsolably crying in distress.

TNSTC Nagercoil division general manager held an inquiry and initiated action against both the employees. A statement from the manager said the bus (TN 74 N 1802) attached to Thiruvattar branch was running on route number 565 from Nagercoil to Tirunelveli with C Nelson as driver and C S Jayadas conductor. As the bus was leaving Vadasery bus stand, the family was forced to get down from the bus. Information technology minister T Mano Thangaraj tweeted that action has been taken against the driver and conductor after he took up the issue with top TNSTC officials.

This is the second such incident of TNSTC crew forcing people belonging to certain classes of the society to get down from buses this week in the district. Both the incidents were caught on video and shared on social media, resulting in suspension of the crew. In the previous incident, a woman selling fish was forced to get down from the bus. A senior TNSTC official also apologised to the woman in person.